ABSTRACT
Intensive Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (IE-DP) is one of the experiential dynamic therapies stemming from Habib Davanloo's Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. IE-DP aims to bring about a good-enough emotional experience and holding relationship within which all emotions can be experienced safely. This is achieved by staying focused on the body and the emotional experience in ways that are tailored to every single patient because they arise from that specific therapeutic relationship. IE-DP therapists often present to the patient the character hologram as a way of addressing the most ingrained, self-destructive personality traits, and mobilising feeling. IE-DP places the more personal aspects of the interchange between patient and therapist at the centre of the scene, and makes this the foundation of the clinical work, whatever the technical intervention or therapeutic activity. The characteristic feature of IE-DP is the concept and technique of emotional maieutics.
